Loma (people)
The Loma (also Loghoma , Looma , Lorma ; own name: Löömàgìtì lɔːmàɡìtì , or Löghömagiti lɔɣɔmàɡòːi in Guinea) are a Mandevolk , who mainly live in the mountains, in the sparsely populated border region between Guinea and Liberia . In 1991 there were an estimated 250,000 Loma between the two countries.
144,000 Loma live in Guinea and 165,000 in Liberia .
The Loma speak a language of the southwestern branch of the Mandes , the Loma . The language is related to the languages of the Kpelle , Mende , and Bandi .
The Malinke , Konyaka and Kissi refer to the Loma as Toma . The Loma of today refer to themselves as Löömàgìtì (or Löghömagiti ), which means "people of the Loma", and use the language Löömàgòòi ( lɔːmàɡòːi ) or Löghömàgòòi ( lɔɣɔmàɡòːi ).
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Robert Selig Leopold: 2 . In: Prescriptive Alliance and Ritual Collaboration in Loma Society . Indiana University, 1991. Archived from the original on July 16, 2011 Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed May 20, 2011).
- ↑ a b Toma . In: Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Sixteenth edition . SIL International. 2009. Retrieved May 20, 2011.
- ↑ Loma . In: Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Sixteenth edition . SIL International. 2009. Retrieved May 20, 2011.
